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Wrecking My Journal, The Catnip Version

June 13th, 2009

Here's the next installment of me talking about Keri Smith's Wreck this Journal for Jamie Ridler's fabulous book group. I don't know that I'll do a video every week, but I felt like this idea, featuring my big orange boy kitty, Tabbers, definitely had to be captured in video. Hehe.

At the end of the journal, there's a place to list other ways you could wreck your journal. I'd written things like: throw your journal from a moving car and play fetch with a dog. And then I saw Jessie's super cute video of her playing fetch with her dogs with her journal! Since I don't have a dog at home to play fetch with, I decided to use another idea from the list: put catnip on the journal and let one of my cats attack it. The other kitties were sleeping elsewhere, but Tabbers is the cat who loves the nip the most, so I asked him if he'd be willing to help me out. He agreed. I only wish I'd caught the massive face push he gave me in thanks right after I stopped the video. Ah well. Enjoy!

hi leah. this was such a great post. i love the kitty cat tabber portion of the video. i also like how you wrote on the pages of the book and included words like destroy. i am gonna do that with some other words. maybe annihilate the journal. something strong. i also like the sushi in the book. yuumy!

Love your video! I got my cat to chew up the corners of the Chew me page. I blogged about it for this weeks challenge — which by the way, Thank you.

I bought WTJ on the 7th as well as a copy of Artful Blogging… and yesterday as I was cruising through Artful blogging, I read about your blog, so I looked it up online, then you mentioned Wreck This Journal, so I went over to the challenge blog and joined in the fun. It’s one big, giant circle!

If I am usually so foolish as to leave any papers or books lying around you can usually guarantee to find a muddy cat paw print on it by morning…. Now I want them to ‘perform’ they are being true cats and doing their own thing!